I want to use the date as part of the logfile naming convention in MS-DOS, here is an example ... 022502backuplog.txt I am running version 5.00, please help!?!?!

Let me clarify, I want to assign a variable such as %DATE%backuplog.txt to automatically generate the date that gets added to the file name. This is for automatically created backup logs at 3 a.m. BT

Get date without separators: http://www.secretdoom.hpg.com.br/us/faq.html#getdate2.bat I'm not sure if it works on Dos5. -- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pignataro -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

Those batches wouldn't work for me. Still can't get the date to appear without all of the slashes, and the Day of the week as well. Any more ideas anyone, I just need to get the value of %DATE% to look like this, ... 02262002 so I can append it as part of my log file name.

That's exately what that script is supposed to do... It didn't work? What was the result? Just in case, I'm posting below the script (just want to be sure you did tryed the right one) === SCRIPT BEGIN === :: getdate2.bat :: Get date into %date% without separators @echo off echo @PROMPT SET DATE=$D$_> %temp%.\$$tmp.bat %comspec% /c %temp%.\$$tmp.bat > %temp%.\$$tmp2.bat rem > %temp%.\$$tmp.bat for %%s in (e111''3B e114''3B w q) do echo %%s>> %temp%.\$$tmp.bat debug.exe %temp%.\$$tmp2.bat < %temp%.\$$tmp.bat > nul call %temp%.\$$tmp2.bat echo SET DATE=%%2%%3%%4> %temp%.\$$tmp.bat call %temp%.\$$tmp.bat;%date% for %%d in (tmp.bat tmp2.bat) do if exist %temp%.\$$%%d del %temp%.\$$%%d echo DATE="%DATE%" === SCRIPT END === BE AWARE OF LINE WRAPPING ! -- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pignataro -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

I copied the script and created a batch out of it called date.bat. Concluding execution, here is the result ... C:\BatchScripts>date.bat DATE="02/27/2002" Still has the slashes? Brian

Here the batch I use to place the date in the name of a file: @Echo OFF TITLE DateName REM DateName.CMD REM takes a filename as %1 and renames as %1_YYMMDDHHMM REM ------- IF %1.==. GoTo USAGE Set CURRFILE=%TEMP%\CURRFILE.TMP Set CURRDATE=%TEMP%\CURRDATE.TMP DATE /T > %CURRDATE% ECHO %1 > %CURRFILE% Set PARSEARG="eol=; tokens=1,2,3,4* delims=/, " For /F %PARSEARG% %%i in (%CURRDATE%) Do SET DDMMYYYY=%%j%%k%%l Set parseagr2="eol=; tokens=1,2* delims=., " for /f %parseagr2% %%a in (%CURRFILE%) DO SET fname=%%a Echo RENAME %1 %fname%_%DDMMYYYY%.log rename %1 %fname%_%DDMMYYYY%.log GoTo END :USAGE Echo Usage: DateName filename Echo Renames filename to filename_DDMMYYYY GoTo END :END REM TITLE Command Prompt